Artist Maria (Marika) Frank Abrams was born in 1924 in Debrecen, Hungary, where she grew up until she was deported to Auschwitz with her entire extended family in mid-1944. Among those deported, only she and one cousin survived.

She drew and painted throughout her entire life. Even as a slave laborer in a branch of the Buchenwald concentration camp, she sketched whenever her fellow Jewish slave laborers managed to get her paper and stubs of pencils.

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